Singer Miley Cyrus has taken to Twitter to ask people to stop threatening her close pal Kelly Osbourne. The trouble began after the Fashion Police star defended Cyrus’ comments that she smokes too much weed in a video, which was leaked from her birthday party, reports a website. “Please stop bombarding my friends twitter pages [...]
Actor David Hasselhoff has confirmed his exit following reports that he had been axed from Britain’s Got Talent judging panel. Earlier this week, the 59-year-old had urged fans to put pressure on Simon Cowell to keep him, but has now tweeted about his departure, reports a website. “So it’s official, I’m not coming back to [...]
Telugu actress Soumya Bollapragada, who was last seen in VN Aditya’s Mugguru, was shocked to learn through news reports that she had been stabbed earlier on Wednesday.The news article was about a Kannada actress, also named Soumya, who was stabbed, but the newspapers ended up using Soumya Bollapragada’s pictures. A visibly upset Soumya said, “I [...]
Wieliczka Salt Cathedral – Poland’s underground wonder The Wieliczka Salt Mines in Poland have been used for several centuries to extract salt, but are now in the news for a different reason. Through their excavations and adventures, Polish miners have left behind something unique in these underground spaces, little known to the world until recently. [...]
It’s the season of actresses making a comeback. After Raveena Tandon in Buddha…Hoga Tera Baap and Karisma Kapoor, who is returning with Dangerous Ishq, it is Anita Raj who is retuning with Samir Karnik’s Char Din Ki Chandni. “Yes, I will be seen again this January after a long gap. My movie Char Din Ki [...]
When it comes to being perfectionists, our bollywood heroes leave no stone unturned. A source tells us that the Badshah believes in practicing his lines to get his perfect shot. Recently at an ad shoot campaign, we saw the Ra. One star rehearsing his lines standing in front of the mirror, trying out different angles. [...]
Lucknow: A snake-charmer let loose a number of snakes in a government office of a small Uttar Pradesh town to shake up government officials who would not respond to repeated requests for allotment of a small piece of land to him to set up a serpentariam.The incident was reported from Haraiya town of Basti district, [...]
Washington: Developing countries are expected to receive a total of USD 351 billion in foreign remittances in 2011, led by India (USD 58 billion), China (USD 57 billion), Mexico (USD 24 billion) and the Philippines (USD 23 billion), the World Bank has said in a report.In all, worldwide remittances — including those to high-income countries [...]
Blame the volatile gold market or the frequent fluctuating prices, these generations-old jewellery stores are trying hard to stay profitable in suchdire times, although they have a solid loyal customer backing.While high-end multicity jewellery stores in the City are doing fairly well on thegold sale front, the traditional family-run jewellery shops are suffering.The rate of [...]
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex was up by 461 points in early trade today on fresh buying in metal, banking, auto, realty, consumer durables and capital goods stocks on the back of higher global cues. The BSE benchmark Sensex resumed higher at 16,555.93 and shot up further to 16,718.11 before quoting at 16,584.26 at 1015 [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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